Question

Alissa is memorizing her grocery list: Eggs, bacon, sugar, apples, bread, hamburger, pop tarts, carrots, chicken, tea, eggplant, green beans, flour, honey, broccoli, oranges, and ice cream. According to the recency effect, which items will Alissa remember?

Answer 1

The ones at the end.

Step-by-step explanation:

The recency effect is a memory effect that occurs when more recent information is better remembered than does earlier-presented information.

This effect says that people tend to have a better memory for information they were told more recently.

This effect is the opposite of the primacy effect which refers to the tendency to recall information presented at the start of a list better than information at the middle or end.

Since Alissa is memorizing her grocery list, according to the recency effect she will have a better memory for the items that she saw more recently, thus, this would mean, the terms at the end of the list. (as opposed to the primacy effect where she would recall the first ones)